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Comments on Voluntariness vs. Responsibility, which of them should be considered as a priority for the community team?
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Voluntariness vs. Responsibility, which of them should be considered as a priority for the community team?
Before starting the concern, I want to appreciate and acknowledge the community team for their volunteer efforts to run Codidact and handle its issues as far as they can.
When I sometimes talk to some people about the state of some unhandled issues, I am answered explicitly or implicitly that "the community team are unpaid volunteers", "they have not free time to handle any issue", "Codidact is an open source platform so that anyone can fix a problem", and so on.
I agree that no one should expect a volunteer to do some work, but for an aspiring community there should be a difference between "voluntariness" and "responsibility". In such a community the community team, though they may be unpaid volunteers, try to run the community like that they are paid staff.
The Codidact community team have accepted to be the staff and run the community. So, in my opinion, if Codidact is an aspiring platform, one may expect that they work as paid staff do.
Am I right?
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tl,dr: No. I'm sorry, but this just isn't possible. First of all, we all are people with a real life. We all …
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Working with volunteers is very different to working with paid staff, and if you try to bring the same expectations then …
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> The Codidact community team have accepted to be the staff and run the community. So, in my opinion, if Codidact is an …
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> I agree that no one should expect a volunteer to do some work Full-stop. > The Codidact community team have acce …
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If you wish the staff to start acting like paid employees, maybe you should discuss how you can pay them. Maybe set up s …
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Since the other answers did not satisfactorily address my concerns, I'll post my answer to the question. If we want t …
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If you wish the staff to start acting like paid employees, maybe you should discuss how you can pay them. Maybe set up some kind of foundation that funds Codidact servers and pays the wages of a staff member or two. To remain consistent with the community-based approach of Codidact, the members, maybe via some kind of representation, should have control over the foundation.
I suggest you start discussions with the staff about how to set up such a foundation and how much money you are willing to put into it.
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